Truckers (TV series)

Truckers is a thirteen-part stop-motion animated 1992 television series adapting Truckers, and the first screen adaptation of Pratchett’s work. It was produced by Cosgrove Hall, who went on to produce the first screen adaptation of the Discworld, using traditional animation.

Taglines

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Creative Team

Crew

Screenplay by Brian Trueman
Novel by Terry Pratchett
Directed by Chris Taylor, Jackie Cockle and Francis Vose
Produced by Jackie Cockle, Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall

Cast

Joe McGann as Masklin
Edward Kelsey as The Thing
Debra Gillett as Grimma
Rosalie Williams as Gran'ma Morkie
John Jardine as Old Torrit
Nigel Carrington as Angelo De Haberdasheri
David Scase as Duke De Haberdasheri
Brian Southwood as Gurder of the Stationeri
Brian Trueman as Dorcas Del Icatessen
Jimmy Hibbert as Vinto Pimmie
Michael Hordern as Abbot of the Stationeri
Rob Rackstraw as Dave the Policeman

Episodes

Truckers consists of thirteen 10-minute episodes, though it was also released on video edited together as a 110 minute film. Note that the synopses below will contain spoilers.

#	Broadcast Date^[1]	Episode Title	Synopsis
1	1992-01-10	“How It All Began”	To be added.
2	1992-01-17	“A Nome’s Welcome”	To be added.
3	1992-01-24	“The Store in Danger”	To be added.
4	1992-01-31	“Meet the Abbott”	To be added.
5	1992-02-07	“The Abbott’s Concerns”	To be added.
6	1992-02-14	“The Hall of the Manager”	To be added.
7	1992-02-21	“Maskin’s Plan”	To be added.
8	1992-02-28	“Working Together”	To be added.
9	1992-03-06	“The Hostage Situation”	To be added.
10	1992-03-13	“Searching the Store”	To be added.
11	1992-03-20	“Angalo’s Return”	To be added.
12	1992-03-27	“The Great Escape”	To be added.
13	1992-04-03	“So Near and Yet So Far”	To be added.

Podcast episodes

Major appearances

These are episodes primarily devoted to discussing this series.

Date	Show	Episode	External link

None yet.

Other appearances

Episodes where the series is discussed, but not as the main topic.

Date	Show	Episode	External link